A day of hard labor earned a man 2-3 grams of silver in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. A silver US dime is 2.2 grams of silver.
9-11
“The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” -Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen speaking with CNN, 2010
Due Process
Recently the Center for Disease Control (CDC) made evictions illegal in most cases because so many Americans are poor.
Golden Age
Today, gold is owned by most people in the Western World.
Putin’s Warning
“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.“
-Vladimir Putin, 2009.
The Printing Press
Today people have access to the knowledge of the Library of Alexandria in the cell phone in their hands.
A Republican Form of Government
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.”
-Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Arab Summer.
85% of Lebanon’s grain was destroyed in the explosion. The Arab Spring in 2012 occurred during a time of high food prices.
Coins of the USA
A list of the metal contained in commonly found coins.
The Federal Funds Rate Stays at 0-1/4%
“We’re not even thinking about, thinking about, thinking about raising rates.” -Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Do Mask Mandates Work?
Sweden never ordered their people to wear masks and they have a lower mortality rate than the USA.
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The stimulus programs have sent trillions of dollars of aid to families who are unemployed because of the government lockdown. Considering the current scale of the riots and unrest, what would happen if just one of the programs ended?
The Inflation Tax
Inflation is taxation as the government gets to spend the newly created money first while prices for citizens rise as the money loses value.
King for a Day (Week)
Is Robert Foster the King of his castle or is Tate Reeves the King, making laws because he says so (rule by dictate)?
LA Lights
“We asked them to blink their lights and when we then went to the window, all of Warsaw was blinking.”
Exodus 3:15
The hand, behold, the nail, behold.
Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865 Major General Gordon Granger announced to the slaves of Texas that they were free per Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
$100 Rich
If that man offered you his car for $100, do you have enough silver or gold to afford it today?
$1 was a coin of 24 grams of silver.
$20 was a coin of 30 grams of gold.